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BTC884 THE SALLEY GARDENS (IRISH TUNE) [FSA 1/1, BRITISH ISLES]

For high or medium voice and piano
Composition date: pre 11 Dec 1940
Date notes

Date of first performance. The first performance was originally believed to be 26 Nov 1941.

Genre: Folk song
Text: W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

The tune is from the untexted 'The maids of Mourne shore' (no. 302) in The complete collection of Irish music, collected by George Petrie, ed. C.V. Stanford.

Duration: 3'
Dedication: 'To Clytie Mundy'

Clytie Hine Mundy (1887-1983), Australian-born singer and teacher who taught Pears in New York for a period in the early 1940s.

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